Young Dolph and Derrion ‘Dmuney’ Childs death updates

HOW DID FANS REACT TO DERRION CHILDS’ COMMENTS ABOUT YOUNG DOLPH?

After Derrion Childs made jokes about Young Dolph’s death, people started to flood Childs’ social media accounts with comments related to Young Dolph.

One user commented: “Respect the dead lesson learned now r.I.p. dolph.”

Another added: “Dissing the dead is negative energy, he should of left DOLPH alone #smdh.”

WHAT DID DERRION CHILDS SAY ABOUT YOUNG DOLPH?

Derrion Childs made jokes about Young Dolph‘s murder.

Childs, 21, dissed the late rapper in a Facebook post, writing:

“MANE CUHH IF YEEN FROM MEMPHIS OR IF YEEN THE POLICE JUST QUIT TRYNA SOLVE YOUNG DOLPH MURDER THESE FOLKS DONE CAME & LOCKED MY GMA UP.”

He also reacted to the news of Dolph’s death, posting: “I love Memphis cuh we so gangsta.”

‘THEIR HERO IS GONE’

Kids who looked up to Young Dolph have been crying, the community is still in shock and his loss is similar to losing Muhammad Ali, residents and community leaders told The Sun in exclusive interviews.

“Ours kids are literally in tears. Their hero is gone,” Jonathan Torres, the CEO of a nonprofit Memphis Athletic Ministries, said.

Memphis Athletic Ministries worked with Young Dolph to hand out turkeys to families “who otherwise wouldn’t have a holiday,” Torres said.

SHOCKING FOOTAGE, CONTINUED

“Oh my God ya’ll, they say Dolph dead. They say Dolph dead,” the person behind the camera is heard saying as the video zooms in slightly to show the arm.

“I was just standing out here just seeing this s**t.”

Moments later, police are seen urging onlookers to back up.

The camera then zooms in on where the arm was seen hanging out the window, only to show authorities had moved it.

“I [have] never seen no s**t like this. Oh my God. … They said that’s Dolph,” the person talking says before the video clip concludes.

SHOCKING FOOTAGE

Footage exclusively obtained by The Sun appears to show Dolph’s arm hanging out one of the store’s broken windows after the shooting that resulted in his death.

The source, who wishes to remain anonymous and first shared the 44-second footage on Twitter, said the video was taken just moments before the rapper’s body was removed from the scene.

The video, which was initially recorded through Facebook Live, had amassed more than 60,000 views on Twitter.

YOUNG DOLPH HAD PROMOTED THE STORE WHERE HE WAS GUNNED DOWN

Six days before his death, Dolph appeared in a video on Makeda Cookie’s Instagram page showing him outside of the store, urging his fans to visit and insisting “every time he comes home he has to stop by.”

“All I came for was to get some Makeda,” he’s heard saying in the short clip, before pointing up to the store’s sign.

“These right here,” he said, gesturing down to a handful of cookies in his hand. “Straight out the oven.”

“Just for you,” the woman behind the camera responds. “Appreciate you, be safe.”

VIDEO OF YOUNG DOLPH AND HIS DAUGHTER

One Twitter user shared a video of the late rapper brushing his young daughter’s hair.

Young Dolph leaves behind his two children in his passing.

Dolph reportedly had two children with Mia Jayes, a daughter and a son.

TRIBUTES FROM FANS, FRIENDS

Since the rapper’s death, fans and fellow rappers alike have been posting tributes celebrating the rapper’s life and legacy.

Megan Thee Stallion posted a photo of Young Dolph on her Instagram. “He was so genuine so real so kind to me,” she wrote. “Rest In Peace to a real legend.”

On Twitter, Gucci Mane wrote: “R.I.P. to my friend Dolph this broke my heart”

Fans have posted videos of interviews and their favorite song lyrics.

POLICE LOCATE MERCEDES USED BY ALLEGED GUNMEN

Law enforcement officials have reportedly located a white Mercedes-Benz allegedly used by the two men who gunned down Young Dolph outside a Memphis cookie shop.

Photos of the car were released by police, who believe the gunmen sped away from Makeda’s Cookies after shooting the rapper dead.

The shooters appear in the images, one holding a rifle while another wields a handgun.

No suspects have been named so far in the shooting that killed the 36-year-old star and people are urged to call the police with any information.

YOUNG DOLPH ‘DIDN’T KNOW HE HAD BEEF WITH OTHER RAPPERS’

The 36-year-old musician was “unaware of any ongoing beef” with other rappers before his tragic death, TMZ reported.

According to the website, sources said the Memphis native was excited to be in his hometown and had “booked a week full of charity events for his community.”

Young Dolph also had “no fear of hitting the streets of Memphis without security guards,” TMZ reported.

Despite Young Dolph’s unexpected attack, no known feuds have been connected to his murder.

‘ALL I HEARD WERE GUNSHOTS’

An Airway Inn worker, who wished not to be identified, exclusively told The Sun that they were cleaning rooms in a motel across the street from the crime scene when they heard the gun blasts from the shooting that killed Young Dolph.

“All I heard were gunshots. We were cleaning the rooms, and we locked ourselves inside,” he said.

HOW DID YOUNG DOLPH DIE, CONTINUED

Police released footage of a white Mercedes Benz believed to be the vehicle used by Dolph’s assailants in the fatal shooting.

The shooters appear in the images, one holding a rifle while another wields a handgun.

So far, no suspects have been named in the shooting that killed the 36-year-old star and people are urged to call the police with any information.

HOW DID YOUNG DOLPH DIE?

On Wednesday, November 17, 2021, Dolph arrived at Memphis bakery Makeda’s Cookies to purchase some baked goods. Maurice Hill, the store’s owner, told FOX13 his employees said Dolph walked into the store to buy cookies specifically.

The owner then claimed that someone drove up and shot inside the store, killing the rapper at around 1pm that afternoon.

Young Dolph’s camouflage Lamborghini was spotted in the parking lot of the bakery.

“The tragic shooting death of rap artist Young Dolph serves as another reminder of the pain that violent crime brings with it,” Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said.

MEMPHIS LEADERS TELLING KIDS TO ‘BE A BEACON OF HOPE’

The whole community is still in shock, said Jonathan Torres, the CEO of nonprofit Memphis Athletic Ministries, but it’s been hardest on the 450 kids they help daily.

The nonprofit brought in grief counselors to help the young people the organization serves process their grief.

“Here, there was an immediate sense of grief and curiosity about what will happen next,” Torres said. “There was a reality of how much he was loved. So why was he targeted?

“His actions spoke really loudly and he was all about giving back to the community,” Torres said. “He always believed in pouring back into your neighbors and under-resourced community.

“We’re telling our kids, ‘Continue what Young Dolph started and be a beacon of hope.'”

HOW YOUNG DOLPH GAVE BACK

No matter how much Young Dolph blew up, he always reached back to Memphis to take talented hip hop artists under his wing, and performed at pep rallies when his former teacher Michael Bates asked.

“The main thing I told him and all my students is to be aware and strive and give back,” Bates said.

“You owe the neighborhood where you come from, but I preached all the time your zip code wasn’t going to be who you were going to be in life.

“He actually did that. He took the trauma and pain that he went through and turned himself into a good family man,” Bates said.

YOUNG DOLPH ‘BET ON HIMSELF’

Michael Bates was Young Dolph’s teacher in seventh grade and then assistant principal when the rapper was in eighth grade.

He said Young Dolph was always good at English Language Arts and “ran around, played basketball and chased the girls.”

“He was a young kid then, but I still remember the way he carried himself. It wasn’t different or something to set him apart. He just always lived up to the monarch of his name.”

In African tradition, Adolph means nobility or noble wolf.

“He bet on himself. He always said he was going to blow up. And he did,” Bates said.

FORMER TEACHER RECALLS YOUNG DOLPH’S CONFIDANCE

Young Dolph graduated and was still “hustling” his way to the top when he visited Michael Bates in 2008.

At the time of the visit, Bates, formerly Young Dolph’s 7th grade geography teacher, was a principal.

“To me, he was always Adolph. So my secretary said Mr Thornton is here to see you.

“He brought this CD with him and said ‘you have to listen to this. I’m ’bout to make it big,'” Bates recalled Young Dolph telling him.

“I know how tough it is to make as a rapper, so I wanted him to get a job. I pushed him to be a fireman, but he just smirked, and said again, ‘I’m about to blow up,'” Bates said. “And then he did.”

‘IT’S DIFFICULT TO LOSE AN ICON,’ SAYS TEACHER

Before Young Dolph was a household name in the hiphop world, he sold mixtapes out of the trunk of his car and in corner stores in the Castalia section of Memphis, his 7th grade geography teacher Michael Bates told The Sun.

“This a tough neighborhood, and for the kids, he was their Muhammad Ali. That’s the impact he had,” Bates said.

“It’s difficult to lose an icon. Our city is still in shock,” he said two days after Young Dolph, whose real name was Adolph Robert Thornton Jr, was shot dead at Makeda’s Cookies on Wednesday.

“I just want everyone to understand that someone took away an image for people who want to do better,” Bates told The Sun.

“As a society, if you take away those images, what do we have left? The world lost a national icon but, for the teachers, we lost a beloved student.”

MEMPHIS RESIDENTS MOURN ‘THEIR HERO’

The Memphis community is still in shock after a loss that locals have compared to losing Muhammad Ali, residents and community leaders told The Sun in exclusive interviews.

“Our kids are literally in tears. Their hero is gone,” Jonathan Torres, the CEO of a nonprofit Memphis Athletic Ministries, said.

Memphis Athletic Ministries worked with Young Dolph to hand out turkeys to families “who otherwise wouldn’t have a holiday,” Torres said.

YOUNG DOLPH SPOKE ABOUT BEING ‘TARGETED’ SINCE HIS TEEN YEARS

The 36-year-old rapper previously spoke about his belief that he has been a target of violence since his teenage years.

“I’ve been targeted since I was 17, 18, 19,” he stated in an interview with The Guardian.

The rapper admitted that he did not grow up in the best surroundings, which caused him to turn to certain methods to make money.

When asked how, he responded: “Hustling – you’ve been seeing it for so long that you start to partake in it. I clocked in when I was 12 and never clocked out.”

He further explained how his surroundings had an influence on him around that time.

“Even when leaving school, you either had to go up past the two stores and the corner, where everything is going on, or walk up this long ass boring street up the hill to go home.

“We wanted to go past where the action is. We were in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades, seeing this living hell.”

YOUNG DOLPH’S FAMILY RELEASES STATEMENT ON HIS DEATH

Young Dolph’s family released a statement honoring the late rapper.

“There are no words that exist, that sufficiently express the pain we are feeling as a family. Losing Adolph, Dolph, Man-Man, changes our life forever,” the statement began.

“And while we take each day as it comes, we are comforted in knowing that he leaves a legacy that reflects his heart. A heart that was for his family, a heart that was for the people. We are grateful for the outpouring of love.

“We are grateful that his goldy obligation to show kindness to the world is being acknowledged.

“As a family, we were blessed to call him our son, our nephew, our brother, our cousin, court partner and our father. And now, we have the honor of calling him our angel. A role he has always played,” they concluded.

DERRION CHILDS’ CHILLING ‘DEATH’ POST

Derrion Childs’ chilling post about death that he posted just one week before his passing has surfaced.

Cops confirmed Derrion “Dmuney” Childs, 21, died in Memphis, Tennessee on November 23 after they responded to a shooting.

He also joked about rapper Young Dolph’s tragic death, which happened earlier this month, before his own passing.

In a post just one day after Dolph passed, Childs said: “If the news don’t post me as a Memphis legend when I die then they HATEDDDDD,” he wrote, accompanied by a heart emoji.

WHO WAS DERRION ‘DMUNEY’ CHILDS?

Derrion “Dmuney” Childs was a Memphis-based comedian.

Childs made headlines after making jokes about Young Dolph‘s murder.

Childs, 21, dissed the late rapper in a Facebook post, writing:

“MANE CUHH IF YEEN FROM MEMPHIS OR IF YEEN THE POLICE JUST QUIT TRYNA SOLVE YOUNG DOLPH MURDER THESE FOLKS DONE CAME & LOCKED MY GMA UP.”

He also reacted to the news of Dolph’s death, posting: “I love Memphis cuh we so gangsta.”

He reportedly died on November 23.

YO GOTTI’S PRIVE RESTAURANT SHUT DOWN BY COPS (CONTINUED)

He explained: “We never touched each other ever in life, we never exchanged no money ever in life.

“The fact is, I’m the biggest rapper from Memphis, I help a lot of rappers from Memphis. I don’t know, I can’t really think about what it is.” 

He insisted that he used to assist Young Dolph with advice and even recounted a text he sent back in 2012.

Part of the alleged text read: “You in a good space in Memphis but you gotta take that s**t from there to the world and it’s gon’ turn into money.

“I like your grind my n****; when I was in your position, none of them n***** as who could’ve helped me did.”

Dolph allegedly declined a record deal from Yo Gotti in 2014, XXL magazine reports.

And the star tweeted in 2016: “Bra went from bein my #1 fan and wanting to sign me to bein my biggest hater (sic).”

YO GOTTI’S PRIVE RESTAURANT SHUT DOWN BY COPS

Rapper Yo Gotti’s upmarket restaurant Prive was shut down by cops as a “precaution” on Wednesday after his rival Young Dolph was shot dead.

Young Dolph, real name Adolph Robert Thompson Jr, was slain in a hail of bullets while buying cookies in Memphis, Tennessee on Wednesday.

Hours later, cops swooped on Gotti’s restaurant Prive – which is located around 10 miles from where Dolph was killed, TMZ reported.

Fox13 journalist Yasser Kishk said Memphis cops closed the eatery as a “precaution”.

Police dismissed reports that the fine dining restaurant had been “shot at” following Dolph’s death.

Gotti, whose real name is Mario Sentell Giden Mims, opened up about reports of a feud between him and Young Dolph, according to Billboard.

The “Rake it Up” rapper spoke out as he was under watch as a suspect after Young Dolph was shot several times in 2017.

Gotti told TV personality Lenard Larry McKelvey, also known as Charlamagne tha God, that he and Young Dolph “never had one argument — ever in life.”